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Alexander, who was in his thirties, cried like a child, he felt extremely guilty, and with a debt to his father, he finally understood at this moment that his father had always been thinking about him and paying for him.

"That's it! I will do as you wish, and I will just do it. Regardless of whether the Crimean War was won or lost, serfdom must be abolished. As for Siberia and the Far East, sooner or later it will be the Russian Empire! This Eastern Emperor named Feng Yunshan, I will make him retreat. You can rest assured. Alexander muttered.

Immediately afterwards, he sent the last edict of his father Nicholas I to Moscow, Kiev, Warsaw and other places at the same time: "Your Russian emperor is dying, and farewell to all humanity." I hope that you, under the leadership of the new Russian Emperor and my son Alexander, will win the Crimean War and lead Russia to the top of the world. ”

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Vienna, Austrian Emperor Franz? Joseph I took his lovely and beautiful Empress Elizabeth for a walk in the back garden.

"Your Majesty, news has just arrived from St. Petersburg that Emperor Nicholas I of Russia has committed suicide by poisoning!" A confidential attendant came to Joseph's side to report it.

"What? Nikolai's old thing actually killed himself? Joseph was taken aback, and his heart was full of apprehension.

Since last year, he betrayed Russia, which had always supported him, for the sake of petty profits, secretly allied with Prussia, declared neutrality, and abandoned his long-time ally Russia, which devastated the Russian emperor.

Nikolai wrote to him again and again, asking for his explanation. But he ignored it. While Russia was in the abyss of the Crimean War, he was busy marrying his cousin, the beautiful Princess Sisi, and organizing their lavish wedding, pushing Nicholas I and Russia into the abyss.

In this regard, Joseph, who was a former friend and brother, betrayed Nikolai, and his heart was actually not so calm. Now hearing that the Russian emperor committed suicide by taking poison really made him feel an indescribable feeling in his heart.

"As soon as this old thing dies, the new emperor of Russia will definitely temporarily withdraw his troops, so this Crimean war will end with the complete defeat of Russia?" Joseph muttered.

Although the Austrian Empire did not directly participate in the war, Joseph was always well aware of the war.

After the outbreak of a full-scale war between Russia and Britain and France last year, Russia was losing ground one after another. First, 60,000 British and French troops landed on the Crimean Peninsula with the cooperation of the navy, and in less than two months, they took the Russian naval base Sevastopol Fortress.

By declaring Austria's neutrality and deploying 80,000 troops on the borders of Hungary with Wallachia and Moldavia, he issued an ultimatum to Russia demanding that Russia immediately withdraw its troops from the two principalities.

Nikolai was forced to forcibly order the Russian army to achieve a victory to stabilize the situation and boost the morale of the army. But it's a pity that the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Mikhail? Dmitrievich? Prince Gorchakov personally commanded the siege of the Sricha fortress. The Russian army fought hard for a day with all its might, Mikhail? Gorchakov was also wounded in the battle, but still did not take the Sricha fortress.

The morale of the Russian army was unprecedentedly low, and the next day they retreated to the north, and the siege of the fortress of Sricha was lifted. The Anglo-French and Turkish armies pursued the victory, and at Gudjevo, the Russian army was again defeated. The exhausted Russian army began to retreat in full force, first from Bucharest, and then from Wallachia and Moldavia, spitting out almost all the territory they had occupied for a year.

The war had reached such a point, in fact, Joseph already knew in his heart that Russia would definitely lose. In fact, there is no need to fight anymore, Nikolai, this old thing can no longer hold on, and he will definitely surrender as soon as possible, and when the time comes, he will beg him to mediate, and he can take the opportunity to knock on a sum and get some benefits.

As a result, Joseph took the initiative to make proposals to the emperors and prime ministers of several countries in Vienna to end the war.

But what Joseph never expected was that instead of ending the war in a hasty manner as he expected, it became more and more noisy, and even he could not expect it.

First of all, Nikolai, the old thing, thought that accepting Joseph's proposal would mean losing all the benefits he had received since twenty-five years, which he could not accept in Russia, and he was determined to continue to fight and seek a decent peace. Moreover, this old thing also said that anyone's suggestions can be accepted, but not their own suggestions! It seems that he turned his back on him and really hurt him too deeply.

Britain and France also did not accept the proposal. They bluntly claim that they do not want Russia to sue for peace so soon for the time being. In their view, it was necessary to put an end to Russia's enormous superiority in the Black Sea, and the best way to do this was to wipe out the Russian Black Sea Fleet altogether.

Joseph even received a letter from Queen Victoria saying that she was urging the war to continue and that she would urge the coalition forces stationed in Vana to move as soon as possible.

On the French side, although his attitude was not resolute enough, because he followed Britain closely, in order to maintain relations with Britain, he still expressed his preference for not stopping the war and continuing to escalate the war.

As a result, the entire Crimean War not only did not stop, but expanded.

And at this time, the weather and diseases helped Russia a lot. The British, French, and Turkish armies were not attacked by Russian soldiers, but they were plagued by dampness, animals such as small insects and schistosomiasis, and a large number of diseases such as plague.

The coalition forces suffered heavy casualties, and Russia, which was attacked, also suffered many casualties.

This was followed by a battle of attack and defense of the fortress and the fierce battle of Balaclava, which was as fierce as a moth to a flame, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Last month, when the British hardliner Lord Palmerston formed a cabinet and immediately ordered the coalition forces to launch an attack, Russia was even more in danger and was already in danger.

And this time, their emperor committed suicide by poisoning, what kind of chaos would be caused, Joseph did not dare to imagine. He looked forward with some schadenfreude to the final end of Russia.

"By the way, dear Elizabeth, you say you are interested in a place in the Far East called the Chinese Empire? But why? Joseph shook his head, no longer thinking about Russia and the Crimean War, and instead asked about his empress.

"Didn't I stumble upon a newspaper two days ago that reported that in the far east, a hero named Feng Yunshan led his people to overthrow the rule of the Tatar barbarians and establish a kingdom where all people believe in God." The queen said with some excitement: "I admire him very much, and he is a hero in my heart." If only I could see him if I had the chance! ”

Joseph frowned!

Although he knew that the queen was actually just a little girl who loved to dream, she was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and she just read a newspaper that came from nowhere, touting the distant Eastern Emperor Feng Yunshan as a savior, a good person who believed in God, to attract the attention of the ignorant little girl. But hearing that his queen admired an outsider so much, and that she was also an Oriental, Joseph couldn't help but feel depressed, and even hated the rebel leader named Feng Yunshan.

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At this time, on the Crimean Peninsula, the main battlefield of the Crimean War, the originally miserable Anglo-French coalition army ushered in a glimmer of light.

Spring slowly came, a seven-mile railroad was put into operation, supplies from Balaclava, especially medicines, were delivered directly to the heights of the front, Turkish laborers arrived, and Spanish mules were brought to the battlefield as a means of transport, all of which greatly eased the trouble of supplies.

The coalition forces besieging the fortress of Sevastopol, more and more. In particular, a large number of French reinforcements have recently arrived on the battlefield, and the French army has increased to more than 90,000 people, all of which are extremely beneficial to the coalition forces.

When British Prime Minister Palmerston learned of the death of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, he immediately urged the coalition forces to launch an attack on the fortress of Sevastopol, but the French commander Carlo Porter refused, and Carlo Porter had the same opinion as the French emperor, believing that the fortress could not be captured unless the fortress was attacked simultaneously from all sides, so he did not want to risk a hasty attack, rejected the proposal of the British, and only agreed to continue to weaken the Russian army in the fortress of Sevastopol, and wait until the Russian army had little combat power, and then capture the fortress in one fell swoop.

Originally, this was a sound strategy. But he didn't expect that the fortress originally did not have many Russian troops, and after suffering the shadow blow of the Russian emperor's suicide, his morale was low, and if he really attacked in a big way, it was really possible to capture it in one fell swoop.

But he missed the opportunity.